''Live in a Dive'' is a live album by
Californian
punk rock band
Swingin' Utters. Released in 2004, it is the sixth in the
Live in a Dive series.
* The album features songs from all the band's albums, and many of their
E.P.s, up to the album ''
Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass, and Bones'', which was released a month before ''Live in a Dive'' was recorded. The
set is notable for its length (over one hour), the band's use of "
acoustical instruments" including accordion on several songs, and Spike Slawson's bizarre story of an encounter with a drunk naked
trucker in a
Portage, Indiana motel while on
tour.
* The cover booklet also features a
comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st ...
story by Joel Loya, involving the Swingin' Utters meeting the ghosts of
Joe Strummer,
Joey Ramone,
Darby Crash and
Sid Vicious.
Personnel
*
Johnny Bonnel (
vocals)
*
Darius Koski
Darius Olavi Koski (born January 3, 1971) is the US-American lead guitarist and songwriter of the punk rock band Swingin' Utters, the alternative punk rock bands Filthy Thievin' Bastards and the Re-volts
The Re-Volts are an American punk band ...
(
guitar, vocals,
accordion
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)
*
Greg McEntee (
drums
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)
*
Spike Slawson
Spike Slawson is an American punk rock musician, a member of Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Swingin' Utters, Filthy Thievin' Bastards, Re-Volts, and Uke-Hunt.
Early life
Having grown up in Pittsburgh, Slawson worked in the mail order depart ...
(
bass
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Fish
* Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species
Music
* Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range:
** Bass (instrument), including:
** Acoustic bass gui ...
, vocals)
*
Chuck Worthy (guitar)
Track listing
''The
vinyl edition of this album was a
double LP, containing two songs not featured on the 23-track
CD version.
All songs by Swingin' Utters unless stated.''
Side A:
#
"Don't Ask Why" – 2:26
# "Pills & Smoke" – 2:42
# "Five Lessons Learned" – 1:54
# "Jackie Jab" – 2:10
# "Nowhere Fast" – 2:01
# "Glad" – 2:10
# "Tied Down, Spit On" – 1:18
# "Hopeless Vows" – 2:17
Side B:
# "Fruitless Fortunes" – 3:54
# "All That I Can Give" – 2:42
# "Windspitting Punk" – 2:15
# "Tell Me Lies" ''(vinyl only)''
# "The Courage of a Younger Pope" – 2:46
# "Sign in a Window" ''(vinyl only)''
Side C:
# "No Eager Men" – 3:07
# "15th and T" – 2:02
# "Teenage Genocide" – 2:05
# "I Got Your Number" ''( Beaufoy, Bruce, Burgess, McFaull)'' – 2:33
# "Mother of the Mad" – 2:20
# "London Drunk" – 3:32
Side D:
# "Expletive Deleted" – 4:13
# "The Next in Line" – 3:46
# "The Dirty Sea" – 3:06
# "Here We Are Nowhere" ''( Cluney)'' – 0:56
# "Catastrophe" – 6:59
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Swingin' Utters albums
Fat Wreck Chords Live in a Dive series
2004 live albums
Albums produced by Ryan Greene